Why own a knife? Why not scissors instead?

Hmmm . . . . My contact at Spyderco told me a year or two ago that there's a barber/hairdresser out there somewhere who cuts hair with a Spyderco Civilian.

Yes, he has repeat customers.

Yes, it's a bit of a stunt.

Now any true knife person, anybody who aspires to set off metal detectors at 100 yards, should carry enough tools to do a variety of jobs. In the woods, you can maybe get by with two knives (a good fixed blade and a Swiss Army or Leatherman type), but civilization is more complicated than that.

Scissors, of course. On a Swiss Army or a Leatherman Micra or some other multi-tool where the knife blades are more or less afterthoughts.

For coupons, a Spyderco Cricket is ideal.

For precision cutting, and for a folding paring knife, a Benchmade 640.

For heavy stuff like cardboard, rope, etctera, a serrated Spyderco Delica or better.

For steak, something with a geo-tanto point, like a CRKT Stiff KISS, or a Benchmade Stryker. The secondary point is the only part of the edge that will hit the ceramic plate, leaving the other 99% of the edge sharp.

Between the Geo-Tanto and the All-Toothy knife, make one of them a little under 3", and the other one "full-size." The one that's under 3" becomes the bagel slicer, since it's longer than the radius, but smaller than the diameter, so the point won't find the palm of your other hand when making that circular cut.

Finally, for air travel, an inexpensive plain-edge short folder, like a Delica or a Benchmade 820, in case the airline serves bagels. Alaska sometimes does.

Oh - I forgot - I'm supposed to be justifying a full-size plain or combo edge sport-utility folder here.


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www.chaicutlery.com

 
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Am I the only one that cuts coupons on the floor?
My knife works great on carpet for cutting coupons. I page through the coupons while sitting "cross-legged" on the carpet (that's "indian style" for those of us that are not very PC), then when I see a coupon I like, I pull out my blade and cut it out of the page. The carpet acts as a knice cutting surface, allowing the blade to pass through the paper. There are other ways also to cut paper with a sharp knife like holding the paper up, poking the blade through, and neatly cutting it out effortlessly. This requires a sharp knife, but my knives are always kept sharp, so that is no problem. Cutting coupons with a pocketknife is how my gramps taught me, and now I even have my wife doing it!

Where my skizzors get the most play is with hair and cloth, particularly near the body...even more particularly: bandaging and stray whiskers.
I go through a fair amount of bandaging in my home and my Leatherman Micra is just the ticket for this kind of thing.
Cutting bandaging and stray whiskers that pop up mysteriously somewhere between morning and afternoon is just about the only time that I reliably and regularly reach for my Leatherman Micra skizzors because they actually work better for the task at hand.

Although, I still do end up using my Micra skizzors quite a bit. Why? Well, because on my PC campus, I usually reach for my tiny Leatherman Micra first if there is any way that it can tackle the task at hand, even if it is ridiculously undersized and I make a mess in the process. Meanwhile, in the midst of digging out the blade on my PC little Micra, I often get lazy and just resort to the skizzors since they are open anyway. This does not always work, like when I am cutting food and such, but it happens once in a while.
Besides bandaging and whiskers, laziness and Political Correctness (UG!) are the main reasons why I use my Micra skizzors, even though I must admit, they are very handy at times.

To prove that laziness and PC are the only reasons that I usually use my skizzors for some daily tasks: now that I carry the Leatherman Wave, I have rarely used the skizzors, because I can whip out the semi-PC blade on the Wave with one hand. This shows that the main reason I use my Micra skizzors during average daily events is because ultimatly they are the first thing to pop out, and even at that, they don't always do the job.


As much as I hate to give any points to the skizzors' side, there were two times that my Micra saved the day this Christmas. One was when I was boarding a plane and the stewardess could not get a box open. I handed her my Micra because, even though it is legal, I thought that my REKAT Pioneer might scare her (it scared the last stewardess that I showed it to, and she exclaimed "security won't let you have that here!").
The second time, (and one of the only times I have ever used my Micra in public for a good reason besides being PC), was during the unwrapping of Christmas presents when I had to let everyone use something to open presents with (of course no one was prepared for this annual predicament!), and my 3 year old niece was involved. I could not be resposible for her cutting herself. Now if it were my daughter, she would get the knife, and learn to use it correctly, but with someone else's daughter, I chose the safer path.
BUT, how many times did my big folder come in handy over Christmas? Countless times! For instance, when we stayed in a furnished cabin, all the knives in the kitchen were dull. I mean, squared-off dull, like someone tried to cut cement with them. My folder was used all weekend there, and that is just one case of many where my folder was relied upon. In fact, it even saved my life once (more to come on that later in my Axis review on Northwest Cutlery's webpage).

Now that I look back and think about it, %95 of the time that I use my skizzors has something to do with being PC. Ug, I think I am going to vomit. This post has been good therapy for me. Now I understand why I carry my Micra around so much.

Good luck!
thaddeus
 
Hal,
Ask your wife if she can spread Peanut butter with her scissors....or cut up a steak...or pick out a splinter...the list goes on.

Besides, if all these GOOD REASONS don't work on your wife, tell her that every fall you'll have to borrow her scissors to skin a deer....that should take care of it!!! Good luck on your quest,...and thanks for picking the GENESIS!

Best Regards,

Will Fennell
President/EDI Knives
 
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